“OH!” She exclaimed.“Um..….hi…...opps…..” She muttered under her breath, realizing she had stumbled into an adult tryst of some sort.I p...aused and stopped struggling from Cindy’s partial embrace. That was certainly not what I had expected.I stared at the young vision, with mouth slightly agape and she stared back at me not quite knowing how to react next.We all stood there for a brief frozen moment in that hallway, just staring at each other, until Cindy cleared her throat and broke the. I wanted to keep the mellow mood so I deliberately used Diana’s real name, “Jen, thank you for suggesting the bacon and thank you Mary for cooking for all of us.”Everyone chimed in thanking Mary.Jen smiled, “I’ve been thinking a lot about when we were together. I’m realizing I didn’t pay much attention to what you liked at the time, I’m sorry.”I didn’t know quite what to say to that. Laura jumped in, “Jen, it’s good that you’re realizing it now. You’re realizing a lot about yourself too. Maybe. After what seemed like an age, utterly unlike a normal portal, I landed with a massive crash into a morass of stinking vegetation. It was pitch black, incredibly humid and on the hot side of the equatorial range of tolerance. However a little fiddling with my eyes and the optic nerves soon had a form of vision going for me. It wasn’t much help, the sky was overcast and the land appeared to be a massive swamp ... Worst of all, I couldn’t sense Arwen either, a magical suppression field dulling my. Okay. I guess we'll see you then."It was pouring outside by then. "Mom can't get out of the office," Ashley said. "All the roads are closing and a huge tree fell on her car. She's going to be stuck there...all night it sounds like." There was a silence and tension in the room you could cut with a knife. "She told me that we should all go into the basement during the storm, and there shouldn't be any funny business."No doubt she would know what we were up to, but at this point, after all these.